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Michele M. Schantz, Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, James H. Yen, A. NguyenPho, Joseph M. Betz
As part of a collaboration with the National Institutes of Healths Office of Dietary Supplements and the Food and Drug Administrations Center for Drug
Steven P. Lund, Joseph B. Hubbard, Michael W. Halter
There exists a generalization of Boltzmann's $H$-function that allows for non-uniformly populated stationary states which may exist far from thermodynamic
Bradley K. Alpert, Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Andrew Hoover, Michael W. Rabin, Joel N. Ullom
We introduce a filter construction method for pulse processing that differs in two respects from that in standard optimal filtering, in which the average pulse
V S. Gornakov, Valerian I. Nikitenko, I. V. Shashkov, M. A. Lebyodkin, Robert D. Shull
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Tara M. Fortier, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, Jennifer A. Taylor, Yang Fu, Joe Campbell, Scott A. Diddams
We utilize and characterize high-power, high-linearity modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) photodiodes for low-phase-noise photonic microwave generation based
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Wei Ren, Eric S. Stanfield, Dennis S. Everett, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Theodore D. Doiron
We describe the application of several surface profile filters as an enabling tool in the dimensional measurements of an engineering artifact, namely, a fuel
We show that highly efficient ultraviolet frequency up conversion can be established in a single- component quantum gas in the counter-propagating weak pump
Samuel L. Manzello, Tokiyoshi Yamada, Ann Jeffers, Yoshifumi Ohmiya, Keisuke Himoto, A C. Fernandez-Pello
A workshop, known as Operation Tomodachi Fire Research was held in Tokyo, Japan from July 1 to July 4, 2012. Tomodachi means friendship in Japanese. This
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XiaoJuan Feng, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, James B. Mehl
We measured 5 microwave resonance frequencies f N of an argon-filled cylindrical cavity at temperatures up to 1349 K. The repeatability of both the measured
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Collisional-radiative atomic models are widely used to help diagnose experimental plasma conditions through fitting and interpreting measured spectra. Here we
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Standard representations for information entities common to manufacturing simulation could help reduce the costs associated with simulation model construction
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David M. Lorenzetti, William Stuart Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Michael D. Sohn
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